Harry S Truman Quotes
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
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I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.
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See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.
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I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.
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You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
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People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.
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I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
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I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
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In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.
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Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
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Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there. In particular, you should spend no time at all thinking about those rosy scenarios in which the market goes your way, since in those situations, there's nothing more for you to do. Focus instead on those things you want least to happen and on what your response will be.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.
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The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
